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At lunch today, the kids split a bit of lemonade. The Fairy poured two glasses perfectly equal. I then told the Hero to choose his cup. For some bizarre reason I added a comment of ‘that way you can choose the one with more’. Both kids looked at me like I was an alien. “Is that WHY you have one of us pour and one of us choose?” They were clearly offended. I tried to explain that this is such a basic parenting tool that I just do it out of habit, and that, yes…it is so to teach children to share and so that one child doesn’t get to cut a bigger piece and chose it selfishly. Now, they really think I’ve lost my mind.

You see, the Fairy and the Hero both have such generous hearts that this idea never crossed their mind. During a recent Costco trip, the Hero insisted that we gather an extra sample of everything we he and I sampled for our sadly, absent Fairy. He couldn’t fathom that she wouldn’t get some of what he gets. The Fairy is always doing similar things. They truly would never dream of cutting themselves the big piece of the pie. Now I’m another story. Excuse me while I wipe the pie crust crumbs from the keyboard. Shhhh. Don’t tell anyone I snuck it! ; )